Road Trip to pottery land-
Mr. Danny Vitali and i recently took a trip to a part of california i fell in love with- the western Seirra Foot hills, near Angels Camp/Jackson/San Andreas. we went to visit a friend Maya who i took RDNA with last year, and her sculptures she has been working on. Maya has been staying with an awesome guy, Kern. these photos are of his pottery studio, homestead and property. it is beautiful country there, really cool community, beautiful sugar pine, ponderosa, manzenita and rolling golden foot hills out near gold country. his gardens are beautiful, and danny and i work traded and did a little other work for Kern while hanging with his awesome community he is building. some what of a renaissance man, he has built his mother a rad rammed earth house, a sauna, a beautiful pottery studio with solar hot water heat, a house, and a really rad seed bank that he shares with his community. land is available and cheap. Maya has been looking around and tempting me with prospects.
My ideal scene would be to find some land up there, spend my time here at RDI on the coast for a few years while i visit and slowly improve the land over time turning it into a permie heaven. it was a area of California i had not even imagined to exist, and cant wait to go back and visit. Kern is wanting to install a food forest/orchard this coming winter so if i am not doing that here at RDI and have a moment, i will try and visit again. i was hooked.
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| Pottery studio |
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| Maya and her nail sculpture |
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| Kerns Kiln |
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| the gardens |
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| More Gardens |
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| A small shed/greenhouse space off Kerns awesome Terrace garden. |
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| Kerns Pottery studio with solar hot water panels |
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| the amazing farm next door to Kerns place |
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| the house, moving the drum set to prepare for a party |
in other news, just a few weeks ago Olivia and i took a walk up the wish creek watershed here on the land and took a magical mystery tour through the two head waters. it was fern covered, oaked and bay tree heaven. here are some photos of the upper water shed here at RDI, as well as the top ridge that we made it up to looking west towards the ocean. Enjoy!
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| up in the thick of it |
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| beautiful bay |
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| fern gully |
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| looking down the west ridge towards the beach |
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| looking down the valley, this is commonweal- the trees are hiding the property! way off on the horizon is just south of SF city. |
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